Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retire to the Bavarian Alps for rest and nerve repair. As the months of captivity passed in Scotland, he developed a persecution mania. "They" were trying to "choke me." Sometimes when he said this his hands would fly to his throat and he would stagger backward, screaming. A psychologist finally learned who "they" were: the people of Europe. Screamed Hess: "Like grass, they grow, higher and higher. They think we are evil and they hate us. The war goes on longer and they get stronger and stronger. From all over the hands reach up for our throats. They want...
...OMEN - Lawrence Treaf -Duell, Sloan and Pearce ($2). The sudden death of a cook turns the rural week end of Psychologist Carl Wayward and his wife into a murder investigation that involves extrasensory perception, precognitive dreams, psychiatry and unadorned violence in its suspenseful course. Not altogether convincing, but notable for crispness and novelty...
...Human beings have their rhythms of elation and depression (according to a 15-year study by a University of Pennsylvania psychologist). These average either two or nine weeks from peak to peak...
...that Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine really had a mind that could "dominate dice," (TIME, July 26) he wouldn't be teaching school...
Crapshooting was under solemn investigation last week by Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University. Dr. Rhine's theory that man has Extra-Sensory Perception, and his game of naming hidden cards, became a prewar fad. It seemed possible that Rhine's work with craps might add to that sport's already numerous fascinations...